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A memorial site for the Wichita State University football team plane crash, featuring a sign, a cross, a jersey, and various tributes scattered across the hillside. A small, yellow plush mascot figure is placed inside a piece of cracked metal wreckage at the Wichita University football team plane crash site.
The crash site is located at an elevation of 3,660 metres (12,020 ft) in the remote Andes mountains of western Argentina, just east of the border with Chile. [1] Search and rescue aircraft overflew the crash site several times during the following days, but failed to see the white fuselage against the snow.
Andes Mountains, Argentina: 29: 12: 11 players and the team physician were killed by a crash, high in the remote Andes mountains. Starving survivors resorted to cannibalism until their rescue on December 21–23. 28 February 1973: Kyzylorda Region women's basketball team: Basketball: Aeroflot: Yakovlev Yak-40: Semipalatinsk Airport, Soviet ...
In 1970, the Wichita State University football team was devastated after much of the team was killed when a twin-engine charter plane crashed into a Colorado mountain after taking off from the ...
A look at some of the plane crash tragedies that have struck the sports world over the decades: Manchester United football club. On Feb. 6, 1958, a plane carrying the Manchester United team and officials crashed as it attempted to take off on a slush-covered runway in Munich. The team was returning from a European Cup match against Red Star ...
Albert C. Katzenmeyer (July 11, 1918 – October 2, 1970) was an American coach and administrator who was the men's golf coach at the University of Michigan from 1947 to 1968 and the Wichita State University athletic director from 1968 to 1970. He was one of 31 fatalities in the Wichita State University football team plane crash.
Yellowjackets was inspired by and is loosely based on the 1972 Andes Mountain plane crash.. On Oct. 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying five crew members and 40 passengers, crashed ...
Survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash including Dr. Roberto Canessa amid a new Netflix movie "Society of the Snow" that recounts their ordeal including eating human flesh to stay alive.